Lest the Thessalonians should think that Paul neglected them, because he went to other places, rather then came to them, he writeth unto them and exhorteth them to patience and other fruits of faith, neither to be moved with that vain opinion of such as taught that the coming of Christ was at hand, forasmuch as before that day there should be a falling away from true religion, even by a great part of the world, and that Antichrist should reign in the Temple of God: finally commending himself to their prayers, and encouraging them to constancy, he willeth them to correct such sharply, as live idly of other men’s labours, whom, if they do not obey his admonitions, he commandeth to excommunicate.